{"id":189079,"date":"2025-02-01T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=189079"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:20:40","slug":"yost-raises-more-than-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/01\/yost-raises-more-than-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Yost raises more than $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Dave Yost has reported raising more than $1 million in the second half of 2024, outpacing every other statewide elected official and candidate. The 2024 annual report filed with the Ohio Secretary of State represents Yost\u2019s largest fundraising haul to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is just exhilarating,\u201d Yost said. \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed by the encouragement and broad support I\u2019ve received from every corner of the state. I want to say a heartfelt \u2018Thank you!\u2019 to everyone who has given to our American First campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With $1,042,296.56 raised during this reporting period, Yost\u2019s campaign account now sits at nearly $2.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yost is one of three Republicans who has officially declared plans to run for Governor in 2026. Treasurer Robert Sprague is also running, along with Heather Hill, former president of the Morgan County school board. Several others are expected to seek the GOP nomination, and several Democrats are expected to run, including former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, who has officially declared her intention to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current Governor Mike DeWine cannot run again, due to term limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Dave Yost has reported raising more than $1 million in the second half of 2024, outpacing every other statewide elected official and candidate. The 2024 annual report filed with the Ohio Secretary of State represents Yost\u2019s largest fundraising haul to date. \u201cThis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 23:26:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189080,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079\/revisions\/189080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}